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$100.00
2a18a/24

Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne


SHERMAN, ANITA GILMAN

Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007

KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history

$40.00
2a18a/28

Writing and European Thought 1600-1830


HUDSON, NICHOLAS

Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical

$40.00
2a18a/31

Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature


HAMPTON, TIMOTHY

Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture

$60.00
2a18b/2

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition


KING, JOHN N.

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history

$150.00
2a18b/3

Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance


HUNT, MAURICE

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare

$40.00
2a18b/22

Interpretation and Theology in Spenser


GLESS, DARRYL J.

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism

$150.00
2a18b/23

Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance


STILLMAN, ROBERT E. (Ed)

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xxiv + 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading to front board, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Brill 2006

KEYWORDS: late middle ages renaissance history drama literature theatre theater England English criticism

$60.00
2a18b/26

The Meaning of Masonry: A Popular Guide to the Values of Ancient and Modern Freemasonry


PERKINS, LYNN F.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 188pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing & staining to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, masters lodge plate to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some sl loss, all corners lightly clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Exposition Press 1960

KEYWORDS: first edition freemasons freemasonry masonic history guide values morals ethics secret societies

$245.00
2a18d/2

Horsemanship: A Bibliography of Printed Materials From the Sixteenth Century Through 1974


WELLS, ELLEN B.

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 282pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary horsemanship horses history historical

$80.00
2a18d/5

The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism


BARKAN, LEONARD

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy

$75.00
2a18d/13

Te Rou; or, The Maori at Home


WHITE, JOHN

READING COPY ONLY, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with black illus to spine, gilt & black illus/tooling to front board, blind stamp rule to rear board, frontispiece, viii + 343pp, v scruffy (heavy chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to boards & extrems with some surface loss, moderate staining/tanning to rear board & spine, heavy tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's label & owner's name to eps, v heavy cracking to gutters throughout with attempts- and failures- at heavy tape repairs throughout, moderate tanning & foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle 1874

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aoteroa Maori culture social cultural history John White customs anthropology

$40.00
2a18d/14

Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates


EVANS, G. R.

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 328pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, occasional annotation & markings in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: theology church doctrine academic literature reformation Christianity 16th sixteenth century history authority

$76.00
2a18d/17

A History of Dentistry in New Zealand


BROOKING, T. W. H.

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 268pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, heavy but small water damage & moderate surface loss to top corner of boards & pages, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy loss & archival tape repairs to top corners, light creasing to edges, moderate chafing/soiling & scuffing to covers, light tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Dental Association 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa dentistry history medical dentists dental

$45.00
2a18d/22

John the Baptist; a Contribution to Christian Evidences. The Congregational Union Lecture for 1874


REYNOLDS, HENRY ROBERT

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, xxxi + 548pp, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1876

KEYWORDS: religion religious ancient history biblical bible John the Baptists Christianity

$55.00
2a18d/23

The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace


CUMMINGS, BRIAN

PENCIL ANNOTATION THROUGHOUT, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 470pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to board edges & extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate water staining to page edges- no wrinkling, afrementioned pencil annotation throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to mdoerate fading to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: literature literary reformation history theology humanism grammar

$40.00
2a18d/31

A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance (Second Edition)


RUBINSTEIN, FRANKIE

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xxiii + 372pp, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1995

KEYWORDS: dictionary Shakespeare literature puns phrases literary history sex sexual language humour humor vocabulary

$225.00
2a18d/33

The Book of Beauty; or Regal Gallery 1848


THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON (Ed)

DELIGHTFUL ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt tooling to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus borders to prelim pages, 302pp, 12x black & white plates with tissue guards, VG (moderate bruising & chipping to extrems, moderate tanning to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking to some gutters, prev. owners' names to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate foxing to plates, all plates are present but some are loose, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, frontispiece tissue guard detached & creased but present, some minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: David Bogue 1848

KEYWORDS: women history beauty portraits royal wives Henry 8th eighth viii 3rd third iii first 1st i

$185.00
2a18d/34

The Jews in Spain and Portugal: A Bibliography


SINGERMAN, ROBERT

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 364pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, minimal library markings, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1975

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Jews Jewish history anthropology Spain Portugal literature texts Garland reference library social science

$18.50
xxsph181753

Lucrecia's Dreams; Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain


KAGAN, RICHARD L.

Super octavo softcover (VG) single spot in black permanent marker to foot edge of text block; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1995

KEYWORDS: richard kagan lucrecia de leon spain prophets prophecies spanish inquisition history academic texts

$60.00
2a18e/15

The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History


GREG, W. W.

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 496pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate foxing to eps and page edges) in d/w VG- (moderate foxing to covers, light chipping to spine extrems and flap corners, 3cm closed tear to upper spine hinge)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare bibliography literature literary textual history

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